On 22nd November 1963 there was a motorcade with the police, secret service agents, the president with his wife and the governor. In the presidents car there was the president, the president wife, the governor and the driver. At around 12.30pm there were passing Euston street then went to turn to Elm street then to Deeley plaza. Between Elm Street and Deeley plaza an assassin fired several shots, striking the president twice, in the base of the neck and the head, and seriously wounding john connally the governor of Texas. As the shot hit the president, his wife got up the back seat while the car was still moving and went towards the booth of the car. The footage shows the president was shot at least twice. The president was then rushed to parkland memorial hospital. Half an hour later the president was pronounced dead. The footage is not very clear and is very unsteady.
A person called Richard stolley who was working for time life magazine heard that Zapruder had the footage of the assassination of president Kennedy, then the same day he telephoned Zapruder and spoke to him. At this time Zapruder was very upset about what had happened so Zapruder told stolley to come see him the next morning at 8am. Stolley was there at 7am. Zapruder showed him the footage and then stolley offered him $50,000 for it Zapruder said yes and then stolley said I don’t want to go out the front way because there so many crowds so Zapruder showed him a back way. Stolley was very impressed with Zapruder. Then all the paper work had gone though with the solicitor. Zapruder made quite a few rules to stolley and he agreed with them.
This film after a while was lost within time life magazine. Then when it was found one copy was given to one person in internal investigations. People made comments like the public have a right to know. After illegal copies were made and then showed on TV, on a program called “good night America.” Many members of the public were very shocked by this viewing. They day after this, Zapruder’s family ran into time life magazine and said our family is very upset because we told you not to show this footage on TV and you did. The next day the film was sold to back to the Zapruder’s for $1. At this time Abraham Zapruder was dead.
Jim Garrison showed his magic bullet theory in court and how a bullet was planted in the car. Lee Harvey Oswald was charged of murdering president Kennedy but there was no evidence of this and Jim garrisons theory proved that Claw Shaw did it but the judge did not approve of his lecture and let Claw Shaw free.
From what I have seen and experience I say that Zapruder was all legit but after that everything started to become gather funny and evidence started to become false.
By Kunal Vaghela